Stove.



No. 858,872. YPATENTEDQJ-ULY'Q, 1907. w. B. KIMMEL.

STOVE. APPLICATION FILED AUG.11. 1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Application filed August 11 1906. Serial No- 330,214.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM BLANCHARD KIMMEL, a citizen of theUnitedStates, and a resident of Boise, in the county of Ada and State ofIdaho, have invented a new and Improved Stove, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

This inventionrelates to stoves, and is especially useful in connectionwith devices of this character designed for military or camping uses andthe like.

The object of the invention is to provide a stove which is strong, lightand durable in construction, and inexpensive to manufacture, and whichcan be packed into a small compass by placing certain of the partswithin other parts. 1 5

A further object of the invention is to provide a stove of the characterdescribed, which has an oven exceptionally well adapted for the cookingof food 5 through being provided with chambers for the circulation ofhot gases from the fire. q

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts tobe more fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in theclaims. I

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts Figure 1 is a perspective view of the stove set upand ready for use; Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal vertical sectionof the stove when ready for use; Fig. 3

is a vertical cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is apartial vertical cross section of the device when packed fortransporting or storing, showing a part broken away.

Referring more particularly to the drawings,I provide a fire-box 1,formed of sheet steel or other similarly suitable material, and havingsides 2, ends 3. and a top 4. The fire-box has. no bottom, and isadaptedto be set directly upon the ground at a point at which the fireis to be built. In order to allow of the feeding and regulation of thefire, an end 8 of the fire-box is provided with a door 5, of the usualconstruction, hinged to the side and provided with the usual latch 6.The top 4 is provided with an opening 7, near an end of the fire-box,the opening having an upwardly projecting flange or collar 8. With theexception of the opening 8 the top 4 is level and imperforate andadapted to serve as an ordinary stove top for frying, cooking and thelike, when a fire has-been kindled within the fire-box. I prefer toconstruct the fire-box of strong sheet metal as it not only must be ableto resist the direct contact of the flame, but it serves also as a casein which the remaining parts of the device may be packed, as will appearhereinafter.

The stove includes an oven 9 that is exceptionally well adapted forbaking and the like, and is formed from sheet iron or similarly suitablematerial. Like the fire-box, the oven is preferably substantiallyrectangular in form and has a top 10, a bottom 11, sides 12, and ends 14joined in the usual manner employed in sheet metal work. The bottom 11is provided with an opening 15, near one end of the oven, said opening15 being adapted to register with the opening 7 of the fire-box when theoven is mounted thereupon, as shown most clearly in Fig. 2. In order toprevent the accidental displacement of the oven from the fire-box, thecollar 8 is adapted to fit securely within the opening 15, as shown mostclearly in Fig. 2. To support that part of the oven which is not mountedupon the firebox, I provide the oven with a foldable support or leg 16,pivoted at that end of the oven remote from the opening 15. The supportis adapted to rest upon the ground and hold the oven in a substantiallyhorizontal position. The top 10 of the oven is provided with an opening17, having an upwardly projecting collar or flange 18. To carry off thesmoke I provide a removable smoke-pipe 19, consisting of a plurality ofsections 20, the ends of which are adapted to fit into the ends ofadjacent sections when the stove-pipe is set up. The lowermost one ofthe sections is adapted to fit upon the collar 18, as shown most clearlyin Fig. 2. The uppermost stove-pipe section 20 is provided with a top21, and a plurality of perforations 22, through which the smoke mayescape, but which prevent the exit of. cinders or burning particles offuel, and thereby obviates the danger, for instance, of setting fire toa tent.

The oven is provided with aninner compartment 23, forming double wallsat the top, bottom and ends, with continuous chambers 24 between thesedouble walls. The compartment 23 extends from one side to the other ofthe oven, and there are thus no double side walls and no chambers at thesides. One. of the side walls of the oven is provided with a door 25having hinges 26 and latches 27 of the usual construction. This door, itwill be understood, gives access directly to the inner compartment whichis adapted to be used for baking and the like. The hot gases from thefire escape from the fire box through the opening 7 into the chambers 24of the oven and circulate therein and find an outlet through the opening17 and the smoke pipe 19. It will be understood that in this way theoven is completely surrounded by the products of combustion. It isthereby heated in a regular and constant manner, thus providingexcellent means for baking and the like. In order to insure that theheated gases circulate entirely around the inner compartment of the ovenand do not pass directly between through the end chamber into thesmoke-pipe, I provide a damper 28, consisting of a fiat plate having alaterally disposed end, which is adapted to slide on the top of theinner compartment and to close the opening between the upper chamber 24and the end chamber 24 over the opening 7. In order to manipulate thedamper, it is furnished with a handle rod 29 attached to the laterallydisposed end and projecting through an opening 30 in the end of theoven. The damper 28 may be used to regulate the draft and to insure thatthe oven is completely surrounded with heated gases, or if the oven isnot in use it may be moved inwardly to allow the escape of the gasesdirectly from the opening 7 through an end chamber into the smoke-pipeof the oven. As the oven is movably mounted upon the fire-box it may beplaced in a plurality of positions with reference to the same as thecircumstances require. For instance, if it is used in a tent in whichthe room is limited, it may be placed directly upon the fire-box withthe bottom 11 of the oven resting upon the top 4, there by dispensingwith the support 16. Further than this, the oven may be placed at rightangles or at any angle with reference to the fire-box.

In order to pack the stove for storing or shipping the smoke-pipe isremoved from the oven and separated into its sections. These are placedwithin the inner compartment 23 of the oven. The oven is then removedfrom the fire-box and the support 16 is folded upwardly against the endof the oven and the oven is then placed within the fire-box, as appearsmost clearly in Fig. 4. The collar 18 of the oven is so formed that itfits Within the collar 8 of the fire-box.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A stove, comprising a fire-box open at the bottom and having anopening in the top near one end surrounded by a projecting collar, anoven adapted to be mounted upon said firebox in a plurality of positionsand having double walls forming a chamber therebetween, said oven having.an opening in the bottom thereof adapted to register with be placedwithin said fire-box when the stove is not in use, the collar on the topof the oven being constructed to tit within the collar of the tire box,

2. A stove comprising a fire box open at the bottom and having anopening in the top near one end thereof surrounded by an upwardlyextending flange, an oven having an inner compartment spaced from theouter wall of the oven at the top, bottom and ends and formingcommunicating (lllilllb hers, the oven being provided with alinedopenings near one end thereof in the top and bottom walls, the openingin the top wall being surrounded by an upwardly exinnding flange, saidoven being adapted to he removahly mounted upon said fire box with itsbottom opening registering with said opening of the tire box and inalinement with the chamber at said end of the oven, a removable smokepipe made in sections and adapted to communicate with said top openingof said oven and a damper slidahly mounted on the top of said innercompartment of the oven at the top of the said end chamber and betweenthe said openings in the top and bottom of the oven, the Ft: movablesmoke pipe being adapted to be placed within said oven, and said ovenbeing adapted to be placed within said lire box when the stove is not inuse, the flange surrounding the opening in the top of the oven beingconstructed to lit within the flanged opening in the top of the firebox.

3. A stove comprising a fire box open at the bottom having an opening inits top near one end thereof rounded by an upwardly projecting flange orcollar, an even having and sur-

and double walls, and alined openings in the top and bottom walls nearone end, the opening in the top wall being surrounded by an upwardlyprojecting flange or collar, said even being adapted to have the saidend removably mounted upon said lire box with the opening in the bottomof the oven i'egit ,ering with said opening in the top of the tire box,the oven having a ioldablo support pivoted to the other end of the ovenat the bottom thereof, the said support, when the stove is not in use,being adapted to [old upwardly against the end oi the oven, and the saidoven being adapted to be placed within said fire box, the collar on thetop of the oven being of smaller diameter than the collar on the top ofthe tire box and adapted to lit therein when the oven is within the lirebox.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM BLANCliAltl) KIMAIIJL.

Witnesses Gno. M. Kinrrmvnin, Anisnn'r l \vintuns.

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